aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Amazon + Wiki = Amapedia
Amazon has just released a new Wikipedia clone, called Amapedia. It’s described as "a community for sharing information about the products you like the most." So far Amapedia has had no promotion from Amazon, but it was discovered today byRogers Cadenhead. Anyone with an Amazon.Com account can edit the site. Regarding the name, Amapedia appears to be a combo of the words Amazon and Wikipedia:
ama[zon][wiki]pedia. [...]The site looks pretty raw currently and has little info in it - it is after all brand new. But a wikipedia for products makes perfect sense for Amazon. Who better to spotlight products and gather product information from the community, than Amazon? Another way to look at this: Amapedia could become the next generation of user reviews. User reviews on websites today are relatively rigid and old fashioned, so Amazon may be thinking that Amapedia will be a new platform for user reviews - it may help remove redundancy in reviews, while offering more completeness.
